Travis Kelce wasn’t joking when he sheepishly spoke just a few phrases on the White Home.
When the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs attended an official ceremony Friday to rejoice their back-to-back Tremendous Bowl wins, Kelce took the rostrum on the invitation of President Joe Biden and mentioned: “My fellow Americans … I’m not gonna lie, President Biden, they told me if I came up here, I’d get tased.”
Whereas even Biden joined in a refrain of laughter, Kelce was apparently useless critical.
“That’s real,” he mentioned on Wednesday’s episode of the “New Heights” podcast he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce. “The Secret Service that’s all over the White House, they weren’t too happy with me. They weren’t too happy with me on my second time visiting.”
Kelce defined he’s been in bother with the legislation enforcement company earlier than whereas participating within the custom of White Home visits for profitable sports activities groups.
The skilled tight finish and his teammates beforehand had been on the White Home final yr, when Kelce unexpectedly waltzed over to an empty lectern whereas quarterback Patrick Mahomes was presenting the forty sixth president with a No. 46 Chiefs jersey.
“So, I’ve been waiting for this,” he informed the group earlier than Mahomes pulled him away.
“Last time … I had an expired ID,” Kelce mentioned Wednesday. “I caught shit for that.”
He famous that, this yr, “I made sure, because of what happened last time and how embarrassed I was for going to the White House with an expired ID, I made sure that I brought my passport.”
He was nonetheless mobbed by federal brokers Friday who remembered his shenanigans.
“When I walked in, we had about four or five Secret Service members come up to me and tell me, ‘You know, if you go up to that podium we are authorized to tase you,’” Kelce recalled Wednesday, clarifying: “It is actually ordered for us to tase you.”
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This time, Kelce was invited to say just a few phrases by the president himself, who joked mere moments earlier than: “I’d have Travis up here, but God only knows what he’d say.” The athlete mentioned Wednesday he had “no idea” that he’d get referred to as on and correctly saved it brief.
“I felt taser aimed at me when I was up there the whole time,” he mentioned on the podcast, later including: “It’s always an honor to go to the White House, man. Any time that I get a chance to get recognized by the president of the United States and get to go with my teammates … I’m doing it.”
“No matter who’s up there at the helm,” he continued, “no matter what’s going on in this world, I think it’s just such a cool opportunity.”
